by the sounds of their voices if they shouldspeak, or since they were too shy to state THE PROBLEMATIC MONKEY. 141 anything, the place had actually been almost as quiet as aQuaker-meeting, excepting from time to time a rustlingof dresses brought on by the motion of the feet, orthe bowing of heads, as extra ones, singly orin couples, went into the space, or once again as sometimid fingers would touchthe keys of the piano. Mrs. Biddlewicker nowthought it quite time that/Jjeverybody was on themove, and to provide moreanimation to the strange-looking individuals sittingaround in such silence, she put a professionalplayer at the piano, andby his side a harpist, vio-linist, and a professional onthe cornet. Had the THE ARTISTS. young people been unmasked they could hardly haveresisted the anticipated impact. But their ears werenearly or quite-covered by the paper-masks, whichprevented the stirring stimulus from reaching withfull force the 3 thousand nerve filaments with Text Appearing After Image: 142 THE KID DOCTOR AND which each auditory nerve is provided for gather-ing up sounds and bring them to the brain.Even if orifices had actually been made through the masksopposite the open locations in the ears, the hearingwould not have been ideal, for all the littlecurves and ridges in the outer ear assist us inhearing. They present surfaces in almost everydirection for gathering noises and conveyingthem to the filaments of the auditory nerve. Themusical instruments did their part, and set inmotion by the vibrations of strings and the breath-currents through the cornet, such waves of air ascould not have cannot reach the harps whichthe nerves have formed by their numerous fibresin the inner cavity of the ear, if the peculiarinstruments which Nature has supplied for gather-ing up those climatic waves had not in thisinstance been covered up. The fingers of thepianist bounded over the key-board; the harpistmoved his head in addition to his hands as his nimblefingers leaped from string t Note About Images Please keep in mind that these images are drawn out from scanned page images that may have been digitally boosted for readability -pigmentation and appearance of these illustrations might not perfectly look like the initialwork. Shuma-Gorath now has an area beside Dormeowmu and Physician Strange … #mrvlcats// cc @apelad< img alt=" physician weird "src =" https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/5021246272_15522db980.jpg "width= "400"/ > Image by< a href=" http://www.flickr.com/photos/15261067@N00/5021246272" > Erik Mallinson Posted from Twitter